Prof. Dr. Volker F. Wendisch holds the Chair of Genetics of Prokaryotes at the Faculty of Biology at Bielefeld University, Germany. He serves as deputy scientific director of its Center for Biotechnology CeBiTec and is member of the board of CLIB2021, an international open innovation cluster of stakeholders active in biotechnology and bioeconomy from academic institutes and universities, investors, SMEs, and industry based in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Volker F. Wendisch received his diploma in biology from Cologne University, Germany. After having completed his PhD at the Institute...Read more
Joseph Chappell became Chair of the UK College of Pharmacy’s Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences on May 15, 2013. Dr. Chappell is an acclaimed natural product scientist and will help develop the College’s expertise in plant derived drug candidates.
He earned his Bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of California, San Diego. He then received his PhD in biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Freiburg and Max Planck Institute-Cologne in Germany, then at the University of...Read more
Dr. Han Li is an Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of California, Irvine. She obtained her B.S in Biological Sciences from Tsinghua University, China in 2008, and her Ph.D. with Dr. James Liao at University of California, Los Angeles in 2013, and conducted postdoctoral study with Dr. Peter Schultz at The Scripps Research Institutes, San Diego in 2013-2015. Her group pioneers artificial cofactor technology and redox balance-based enzyme evolution, which enable broad microbial and cell-free...Read more
Birgitta Ebert studied Chemical Engineering from 2000 to 2005 at the TU Dortmund University (Dortmund, Germany) with a specialization in biotechnology and technical chemistry. In her diploma thesis at the Chair of Chemical Biotechnology (TU Dortmund, Germany) she computationally analyzed and experimentally verified the metabolic potential of Escherichia coli for whole-cell redox biocatalysis.
During her PhD thesis, supervised by Prof. Dr. Andreas Schmid at the Chair of Chemical Biotechnology (TU Dortmund, Germany), she further applied systems biotechnological approaches to...Read more
Soha Hassoun is Professor and Past Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Tufts University. She holds secondary appointments in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and also in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Tufts. Soha received the BSEE degree from South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, the Master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Soha's research interest is in the area of...Read more
Microbial systems offer the opportunity to produce a wide variety of chemical compounds in a sustainable fashion. Economical production, however, requires processes that operate with high titer,...
Dear Mid-Michigan AIChE members & well-wishers, given below are three free seminars coming up in celebration of Earth Day in the month of April 2021. Please consider attending them. 1) Join Nayomi Cawthorne, Farm manager at D-Town Farm; The Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DCFSN...
